This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

Museum dedicated to the largest battleship ever built.

"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."

The world's longest tunnel with an undersea section.

This whimsical garbage disposal facility receives around 12,000 accidental tourists each year.

These seven moai figures are the world's only sanctioned replicas of the Easter Island originals.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

An ingenious solution to a tricky engineering problem, this spiraling bridge takes drivers for a dizzying spin.

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

Ruins and statues dot the landscape of this tiny island rich with royal history.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

This ordinary set of steps is a must-see destination for fans of a certain romantic anime.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

A dilapidated amusement park with a million-dollar view.

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.

The largest collection of model trains in the world is actually run using full-size locomotive technology.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

An anthropological theme park that depicts the cultures of around 20 different countries.

This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.

The third-tallest statue in the world depicts the "Buddha of Infinite Light," complete with observation deck in his chest.